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" Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion. "

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" Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement. "

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" A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. "

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" See, that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college. "

" Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. "

" Disabled people need more invested in their education, housing, job training, transportation, assistive technology, and independent-living facilities. Governments earn back this investment - and more - by making people with disabilities economically productive citizens. "

" Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. "

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" This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth. "

" It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education. "

" I think what's been lacking from our discussion for a long time is really that other part of what a Budget chair does, which is set the priorities for this country in terms of making sure we invest in the right places, in education, in job training, and to make sure we do a balanced approach moving forward. "

" I would never have been able to find my voice if I didn't have music education. "

" There are people from lots of different fields in my department. In my lab, they come from computer science, education, psychophysics, psychology, music - and we all work together, and it feels very comfortable. All the careers I've had have been interdisciplinary; working in a studio is like being an engineer and a musician and a therapist. "

" I think the most important issue for all of us is our economy and jobs and creating opportunities for young people to be able to get the education that you need to be able to afford to go to college. "

" Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. "

" If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided. "

" If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. "

" I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people. "

" Read in order to live. "

" Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education. "

" Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education. "

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" If you have four years to complete your college education, do it. "

" The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else. "

" What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. "

" Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing. "

" I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need. "

" Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world. "

" Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked. "

" If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. "

" A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. "

" If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind? "

" The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. "